"Yearning" is a duet by George Jones and Jeanette Hicks. It was released as a single on Starday Records in 1957. Although Jones had released a couple of duets with fellow Starday artist Sonny Burns, "Yearning" was the first duet to become a hit, making the Top 10.

1.
Single (music)
–
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Typically, these are the songs from albums that are released separately for promotional uses such as digital download or commercial radio airplay and are expected to be the most popular, in other cases a recording released as a single may not appear on an album. As digital downloading and audio streaming have become prevalent, it is often possible for every track on an album to also be available separately. Nevertheless, the concept of a single for an album has been retained as an identification of a heavily promoted or more popular song within an album collection. Despite being referred to as a single, singles can include up to as many as three tracks on them. The biggest digital music distributor, iTunes, accepts as many as three tracks less than ten minutes each as a single, as well as popular music player Spotify also following in this trend. Any more than three tracks on a release or longer than thirty minutes in total running time is either an Extended Play or if over six tracks long. The basic specifications of the single were made in the late 19th century. Gramophone discs were manufactured with a range of speeds and in several sizes. By about 1910, however, the 10-inch,78 rpm shellac disc had become the most commonly used format, the inherent technical limitations of the gramophone disc defined the standard format for commercial recordings in the early 20th century.26 rpm. With these factors applied to the 10-inch format, songwriters and performers increasingly tailored their output to fit the new medium, the breakthrough came with Bob Dylans Like a Rolling Stone. Singles have been issued in various formats, including 7-inch, 10-inch, other, less common, formats include singles on digital compact cassette, DVD, and LD, as well as many non-standard sizes of vinyl disc. Some artist release singles on records, a more common in musical subcultures. The most common form of the single is the 45 or 7-inch. The names are derived from its speed,45 rpm. The 7-inch 45 rpm record was released 31 March 1949 by RCA Victor as a smaller, more durable, the first 45 rpm records were monaural, with recordings on both sides of the disc. As stereo recordings became popular in the 1960s, almost all 45 rpm records were produced in stereo by the early 1970s

2.
George Jones
–
George Glenn Jones was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He achieved international fame for his long list of hit records, including his best known song He Stopped Loving Her Today, as well as his distinctive voice, for the last 20 years of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country singer. Waylon Jennings expressed an opinion in his song Its Alright, If we all could sound like we wanted to. The shape of his nose and facial features earned Jones the nickname The Possum, born in Texas, Jones first heard country music when he was seven and was given a guitar at the age of nine. He married his first wife, Dorothy Bonvillion, in 1950 and he served in the United States Marine Corps and was discharged in 1953. He married Shirley Ann Corley in 1954, in 1959, Jones released a cover version of White Lightning by J. P. Richardson, which launched his career as a singer. His second marriage ended in divorce in 1968, he married country music singer Tammy Wynette a year later. Many years of alcoholism caused his health to deteriorate severely and led to his many performances. After his divorce from Wynette in 1975, Jones married his wife, Nancy Sepulvado, in 1983. Jones died in 2013, aged 81, from respiratory failure. During his career, Jones had more than 150 hits, both as a solo artist and in duets with other artists. George Glenn Jones was born on September 12,1931 in Saratoga, Texas and his father, George Washington Jones, worked in a shipyard and played harmonica and guitar while his mother, Clara, played piano in the Pentecostal Church on Sundays. During his delivery, one of the doctors dropped Jones and broke his arm, when he was seven, his parents bought a radio and he heard country music for the first time. But the opposite happened, he became a chronic singer and he became someone who had to sing. Daddy was an unusual drinker. He drank to excess but never while working, and he probably was the hardest working man Ive ever known. His father bought him his first guitar at age nine and he learned his first chords and songs at church and he left home at 16 and went to Jasper, Texas, where he sang and played on the KTXJ radio station with fellow musician Dalton Henderson. From there, he worked at the KRIC radio station, during one such afternoon show, Jones met his idol, Hank Williams. In the 1989 video documentary Same Ole Me, Jones admitted, I couldnt think or eat nothin unless it was Hank Williams and he had to be, really, the greatest

3.
Country music
–
Country music is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the genre of United States, such as folk music. Blues modes have been used throughout its recorded history. The term country music is used today to many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most listened to rush hour radio genre during the evening commute, immigrants to the Southern Appalachian Mountains of North America brought the music and instruments of Europe and Africa along with them for nearly 300 years. Country music was introduced to the world as a Southern phenomenon, Bristol, Tennessee, has been formally recognized by the U. S. Congress as the Birthplace of Country Music, based on the historic Bristol recording sessions of 1927. Since 2014, the city has been home to the Birthplace of Country Music Museum, historians have also noted the influence of the less-known Johnson City sessions of 1928 and 1929, and the Knoxville sessions of 1929 and 1930. Prior to these, pioneer settlers, in the Great Smoky Mountains region, had developed a musical heritage. The first generation emerged in the early 1920s, with Atlantas music scene playing a role in launching countrys earliest recording artists. Okeh Records began issuing hillbilly music records by Fiddlin John Carson as early as 1923, followed by Columbia Records in 1924, many hillbilly musicians, such as Cliff Carlisle, recorded blues songs throughout the 1920s. The most important was the Grand Ole Opry, aired starting in 1925 by WSM in Nashville, during the 1930s and 1940s, cowboy songs, or Western music, which had been recorded since the 1920s, were popularized by films made in Hollywood. Bob Wills was another musician from the Lower Great Plains who had become very popular as the leader of a hot string band. His mix of country and jazz, which started out as dance hall music, Wills was one of the first country musicians known to have added an electric guitar to his band, in 1938. Country musicians began recording boogie in 1939, shortly after it had played at Carnegie Hall. Gospel music remained a component of country music. It became known as honky tonk, and had its roots in Western swing and the music of Mexico. By the early 1950s a blend of Western swing, country boogie, rockabilly was most popular with country fans in the 1950s, and 1956 could be called the year of rockabilly in country music. Beginning in the mid-1950s, and reaching its peak during the early 1960s, the late 1960s in American music produced a unique blend as a result of traditionalist backlash within separate genres

4.
Songwriter
–
A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hits means that songwriting is often an activity for which the tasks are distributed between a number of people. For example, a songwriter who excels at writing lyrics might be paired with a songwriter with a gift for creating original melodies, pop songs may be written by group members from the band or by staff writers – songwriters directly employed by music publishers. Some songwriters serve as their own publishers, while others have outside publishers. The old-style apprenticeship approach to learning how to write songs is being supplemented by university degrees and college diplomas, a knowledge of modern music technology, songwriting elements and business skills are necessary requirements to make a songwriting career in the 2010s. Several music colleges offer songwriting diplomas and degrees with music business modules, the legal power to grant these permissions may be bought, sold or transferred. This is governed by international copyright law, song pitching can be done on a songwriters behalf by their publisher or independently using tip sheets like RowFax, the MusicRow publication and SongQuarters. Skills associated with song-writing include entrepreneurism and creativity, songwriters who sign an exclusive songwriting agreement with a publisher are called staff writers. In the Nashville country music scene, there is a staff writer culture where contracted writers work normal 9-to-5 hours at the publishing office and are paid a regular salary. This salary is in effect the writers draw, an advance on future earnings, the publisher owns the copyright of songs written during the term of the agreement for a designated period, after which the songwriter can reclaim the copyright. In an interview with HitQuarters, songwriter Dave Berg extolled the benefits of the set-up, unlike contracted writers, some staff writers operate as employees for their respective publishers. Under the terms of work for hire agreements, the compositions created are fully owned by the publisher. In Nashville, young writers are often encouraged to avoid these types of contracts. Staff writers are common across the industry, but without the more office-like working arrangements favored in Nashville. All the major publishers employ writers under contract, songwriter Allan Eshuijs described his staff writer contract at Universal Music Publishing as a starter deal. His success under the arrangement eventually allowed him to found his own publishing company, so that he could. keep as much as possible, songwriters are also often skilled musicians. In addition to selling their songs and musical concepts for other artists to sing, songwriters need to create a number of elements for a song

5.
Record producer
–
A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu

6.
Grand Ole Opry's New Star
–
Grand Ole Oprys New Star is the 1956 country music debut album released by George Jones on October 1,1956. Produced by Jones manager Pappy Daily, the album was recorded during sessions in 1954, throughout 1955. It is also the first album to be released on the Starday label, despite its mediocre sound, the album has become a huge collectors item. Online sales of copies have ranged up from $200 to $500. On October 15,2013, the album was reissued by Reserve Records, with the first 250 copies cut on blue vinyl, Starday Records was an independent record label in Houston that was co-founded by Joness producer and mentor H. W. Pappy Daily and Jack Starnes. The title reflected Joness 1956 appearance on the Grand Ole Opry, extant copies of Grand Ole Oprys New Star are rare, and collectors prices are $400 and up. Jones wrote or co-wrote all fourteen songs on the album, which included three of his early top-10 country hits, Why Baby Why, What Am I Worth, the singer had performed You Gotta Be My Baby during his first appearance on the Grand Ole Opry in 1956. Jones and Edwards also collaborated on Seasons Of My Heart, which would go on to be a hit for Johnny Cash and was recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis. Former Starday president Don Pierce later explained to Jones biographer Bob Allen that Pappy realized Georges strength as a long before I did. He felt that Seasons Of My Heart was a big song, Ragged But Right & Yearning Im Ragged But Im Right is a defiant statement of blue collar pride that actually dates back to a 1929 blues record by the Blue Harmony Boys. It was later cut by stringband veteran Riley Puckett in 1934 but, as Colin Escott speculated in 1994, George probably picked it up from the Gulf Coast legend Moon Mullican, the song would remain a favorite of Joness, who would rerecord it several times. In later years, Jones would have good to say about the music production at Starday. We recorded in a living room of a house on a highway near Beaumont. In 2013, Grand Ole Oprys New Star was reissued for the first time, in his autobiography the singer joked, During the years, when Ive encountered those records, Ive used them for Frisbees. Play It Cool, Man, Play It Cool, recorded by Jones in 1954, in the 1989 Jones documentary Same Ole Me, Johnny Cash insisted, George Jones woulda been a really hot rockabilly artist if hed approached it from that angle. Well, he was, really, but never got the credit for it, what Am I Worth was covered by Sammy Kershaw on 1991s Dont Go Near the Water. All songs by George Jones unless otherwise noted, as listed on the cover and record label

7.
Long Live King George
–
Long Live King George is the title of a 1965 country music released by George Jones. The album was thought to be a studio release, however. The album features many of Jones early gems, including many of his earliest hits, You Gotta Be My Baby from 1956, Seasons of My Heart from 1955, and Jones first chart single Why Baby Why in 1955. It even lists a track from his third attempt in 1957 with Virginia Spurlock titled, No, No. Pappy Daily and Jack Starnes, absorbed into Mercury Records, after 12 years in the business, Mercury hadnt found one country artist who had promised or delivered half of what George had. By July 1958, Mercury-Starday dissolved with Pierce assuming control of Starday, Jones wrote or co-wrote all of the selections on Long Live King George. Two selections, Nothing Can Stop My Love and Tall, Tall Trees, were co-written with Joness friend Roger Miller, Jones also collaborated with J. P. Richardson on the upbeat If I Dont Love You. Long Live King George includes several songs, such as his first chart hit Why Baby Why, Starday would continue this practice into the 1970s. Jones would later explain to Nick Tosches in 1994, There was no such thing as production at Starday. We’d go in with the band, we’d go over the song, I’d look over and tell the player to take a break or kick it off. I’d just let them know if we were going to tag it or not and we didn’t take the pains of making several takes. Back then, over three or four takes, they’d say, My God, this is costing us money, so we’d just get it down as good as we could. If we went a little flat or sharp in a place or two, they’d say, The public ain’t going to notice that, so put it out, so we did, and it wasn’t too successful, so I think maybe the public did notice it

8.
Country Church Time
–
Country Church Time is the 1959 country/gospel music studio album released by George Jones on January 20,1959. It was also his studio album release. The LP includes multiple early gospel recordings by Jones on Starday, the album was released on January 20,1959, and recorded from 1956-1958, listing Jones first gospel recordings. The album, however, wasnt received well, and did not chart, due in part to the lackluster sound of Starday. The album was also Jones debut album as a Mercury artist, joness fondness for gospel music is well documented. In the 1989 documentary Same Ole Me, Jones recalls that he learned how to play the guitar at the church where his mother Clara, shed get her guitar and wed pick and sing together. We used to do all the really old gospel songs. Joness love of music actually predated his exposure to country music. Jones recorded the oldest selections included on the 1959 LP in August 1956, the songs Boat of Life and Taggin Along were cut while Jones was still with Starday. Jones wrote several of the songs with Burl Stephens, composing melodies to Stephens poems, both tracks were included on his debut album as well. His first recordings of 1957 were cut in January at the Gold Star Recording Studio in Houston and it was during this time that Jones also switched to Mercury, recording his first Nashville songs in the Bradley Film and Recording Studio on 16th Ave. South. In September 1957, Jones recorded two songs titled, Wandering Soul and If You Want to Wear a Crown, Wandering Soul was co-written with Bill Dudley, and If You Want to Wear a Crown was another lonesome-pen by Jones. April 21, September 1958 Recordings Jones gathered at the studio again on April 21,1958 to record a series of hymns that he picked up. The first recording was Good Ole Bible, which was co-wrote with Burl Stephens, well Understand It was recorded next, followed by Will the Circle Be Unbroken. After recording Life to Go, he cut Jesus Wants Me and My Lord Has Called Me, all three written by Jones alone. Amazon. com writes of the album, Poignant church going gems perfect for Sunday morning worship plus just as many tunes for hungover reminiscing of what could have, would have or might have been. From early morning pulpit prayer to late night whiskey-soaked tales of regret, all this from a man who rode his lawnmower to the bar when his wife hid his car keys. George Jones Official Website Record Label

9.
White Lightning and Other Favorites
–
White Lightning and Other Favorites is the 1959 country music studio album released by George Jones on May 26,1959. The album is Jones seventh studio release, and its title track White Lightning was a #1 Country hit in 1959. The album is one of the best, if not the best, the album charted well, and was one of the most popular country albums of 1959. It also plays some of Jones first collaboration tracks, Im With the Wrong One was his second collaboration, recorded in 1956 with Jennette Hicks. Flame in My Heart was his collaboration, recorded with Virginia Spurlock in 1957. In 1957, Jones signed to Mercury Records and began recording them in Nashville. White Lightning and Other Favorites was released on May 28,1959 as a two-sided 33rpm LP, both sides listed a collaboration and both ended in a Southern-Gospel tune. The oldest song included on the album was recorded at one of his last recording sessions with Starday Records in August 1956 titled, Im With the Wrong One, written by Early Montgomery. White Lightining White Lightning was released in February 1959, and became a #1 hit written by a close-friend of Jones, the Big Bopper wrote the song and included on his only LP release. Jones asked his manager, H. W. Pappy Daily, if he could record it, Jones recorded the song in September 1958 at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville. It was released as a three days after Richardson died in a plane crash. Thats the Way I Feel was recorded in September 1957 and was written by Jones, Jones would write or co-write 10 of the songs and all of Side 2. Life to Go was one of Jones best compositions, written after Jones played the Old Time Fiddlers Convention in Crockett, Texas with Jackson, there was a prison there and, while walking around the grounds with Jackson, they began chatting with an inmate. At one point they asked him how much time he had left to serve, to which the prisoner replied, I been here for eighteen years and his remark chilled me to the bone, Jones wrote in his 1996 autobiography I Lived To Tell It All. I had hated the prison, but I knew Id be leaving and that man hated it more and knew hed never leave. I wanted to get that out of my mind. Dont Do This To Me was recorded on March 19,1957, wandering Soul was recorded in September 1957 and was written by Bill Dudley and Jones. Give Away Girl was written by Jones and Sid Kessel on March 19,1957, youre Back Again was recorded and Jones and Hank Locklin, Locklin singing the backing-vocals for the track during an October 1956 session

10.
George Jones Salutes Hank Williams
–
George Jones Salutes Hank Williams is the 1960 country music studio album released in May 1960 by George Jones. The album was the ninth studio LP release, and was recorded in one session, the album has been reissued multiple times since its release, including the tracks being reused on many compilations. The album was his album release of the 1960s, and is one of the best sounding albums recorded with Mercury Records. Though the album didnt chart, however, it one of his best sellers. George Jones very often would cite Hank Williams and his biggest musical influence, Jones listened to him any chance he could get, and bought many of his records. He would even meet Williams during a show on KRIC in Beaumont, Texas where a young teenage Jones secured a gig backing old-timer country duet act Eddie. A dee-jay on KRIC was a friend of Hanks, so he asked Hank to come by that afternoon before the dance. I knew he was coming by, and I had learned Wedding Bells and he gets up to the microphone with the guitar, and he didnt let me kick it off. I had done all that figuring out, when he started singing, I loved his singing so much that I was dumbfounded. My fingers just froze to the neck of the guitar, in the 1989 video documentary, Same Ole Me, Jones admits, I couldnt think or eat nothin unless it was Hank Williams, and I couldnt wait for his next record to come out. He had to be, really, the greatest, in his memoir, Jones recalled learning about Williams death on New Years Day 1953 while he was serving a stint in the marines stationed in San Jose, California. After a friend showed him the headline in the paper, Jones wrote that he lay there and bawled, by that thinking you could say he was the biggest part of my life. Thats how personally I took him and his songs, the songs on George Jones Salutes Hank Williams feature some of the late country stars biggest hits, including Cold, Cold Heart and Hey, Good Lookin. Jones would record a second Williams tribute album in March 1962 titled My Favorites of Hank Williams, Salutes Hank Williams was recorded on April 21,1960, at Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville, TN. All the tracks were produced by Jones manager, Pappy Daily, the first track recorded was Settin the Woods on Fire, followed by Window Shopping, and Howlin at the Moon. The next tracks recorded were Therell Be No Teardrops Tonight, Hey Good Lookin, nobodys Lonesome for Me, Cold, Cold Heart, Why Dont You Love Me. Honky Tonkin, Jambalaya, and I Cant Help It, in an interview with the Country Music Hall of Fame, session guitar player Jimmy Capps recalled that all 12 sides were recorded in 3 hours, with George Jones singing live, and no playbacks. Williams himself, is regarded as the greatest songwriter in country musics history

11.
Sings Country and Western Hits
–
Sings Country and Western Hits is the 1961 country music studio album released in May 1961 by George Jones. The album was Jones tenth studio release since his debut LP in 1956. It would be one of his last with Mercury Records, as he switched to United Artists in late 1961, the album featured Jones covers of hits in the Country and Western Charts, that were previously recorded by his fellow country artists or himself. It featured his second #1 hit Window Up Above, released the previous year, the LP became one Jones best sounds during the early 1960s, released after another great album, Salutes Hank Williams. Sings Country and Western Hits would be Joness last album with Mercury, as Colin Escott observes in the liner notes to the Jones retrospective Cup of Loneliness, The Classic Mercury Years, Mercury lost George just as he was on the verge of ruling the charts. Art Talmadge had left Mercury Records and gone to United Artists, the first single, the classic She Thinks I Still Care, was one of seven records George would chart in 1962. Window Up Above Sings Country and Western Hits features hits made famous by other artists but also include songs closely identified with Jones, as the singer explained to Nick Tosches in 1994, I wrote it in about twenty minutes. I just came in off the road, about eight in the morning, while breakfast was being fixed, I just sat down in the den and picked up the guitar, and it was as simple as that. Sometimes it’s hard to figure where the ideas come from. He sang it in a manner which merely insinuated the presence of the wild, the song would later be covered by Loretta Lynn, Leon Russell, and Mickey Gilley, whose 1975 rendition would hit number one on the country charts. The history of country and western music has many names emerge as top singing stars. However, only few have risen to such a height that their name will live in country music forever, the first to reach this plateau was the legendary Jimmie Rodgers, who made country music a popular boom. The next artist that would gain a reputation that would make him forever in the hearts of country music lovers was Hank Williams. Williams star rose overnight despite a full field of competition, Hank gained his reputation from not only singing, but also because he wrote songs that would be sung for decades to come, such as, Cold, Cold Heart, Half as Much. When Hank Williams met his end, many wondered who would be the next artist to claim the title of king of country. The answer was not long in coming—George Jones, George Jones, oddly enough, has the same qualities that made Hank Williams a legend. George not only sings c&w tunes the way they should be sung, among his compositions are such stellar tunes as Life to Go, Just One More, Also included in his latest national best selling hit, Window Up Above. George Jones has proven to be a composer who can write about people, love, and tragedy, the country and western field of music is peculiarly for and about people and its music tells about people and their feelings

12.
Sings from the Heart
–
Sings from the Heart is the 1962 country music studio album released by George Jones in June 1962. The album was his eleventh studio LP release, and was his last with Mercury, the albums theme was listing of songs about the heart, and contains his last #1 with Mercury Records from 1961, Tender Years. The LP release was Jones fourth studio release during the 1960s, Sings from the Heart was compiled from recordings during one of his last Mercury Records sessions, and some other sessions. The LP would be Jones last release during his years with Mercury. The album includes his last #1 hit with Mercury titled, Tender Years and it contains 10 exceptional ballads, and the album was one of many LPs released by George in 1962. The first track introduced on Sings from the Heart was Achin, Breakin Heart, which was recorded on February 8,1961, and released as a single on January 6,1962, and written by Rick Hall. Hearts in My Dreams was written by Jones and Roger Miller, and recorded on April 23,1957, candy Hearts was a song written and recorded by Jones in April 1959, and later was released as the b-side to Window Up Above in June 1960. Talk to Me Lonesome Heart was written by James OGwynn, recorded in late August 1959, the fifth track on the side was With Half a Heart, which was written by Leon Payne and recorded in early April 1960. The last track of the side was Heartaches by the Number, written by Harlan Howard, one of Jones best Mercury recordings, however, largely unappreciated, was the opening track to side 2, When My Heart Hurts No More, a more than exceptional ballad listing. The song was written by Jones childhood friend and an often co-pen, Darrell Edwards and it was recorded during the February 8,1961 session, and was re-recorded with Musicor in 1967. Cold, Cold Heart was recorded for his 1960 album, Salute Hank Williams on April 21,1960, ive Got a New Heartache was recorded sometime in 1957, written by Ray Price and Wayne Walker, and most recognizably, re-recorded as a duet with Gene Pitney. I Gotta Talk to Your Heart was another co-writing between Jones and Miller, and recorded on June 5,1957, frozen Heart was written by Jones and Jimmy Yancey, and recorded in October 1957. The last and most notable track listed was the Tender Years, the song became one of Jones greatest ballads, and its greatest version was a 1967 re-recording with Musicor. The album was received well by critics, and even sold well, Tender Years later became the most well known song on the album. In 1984, Jones biographer Bob Allen wrote that The manner in which he sang the words to Tender Years was, in fact, George Jones Official Website Record Label

13.
George Jones Sings Bob Wills
–
George Jones Sings Bob Wills is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1962 on the United Artists Records, George Jones Sings Bob Wills was Jones first album with United Artists after leaving Mercury Records. The album was produced by H. W. Pappy Daily and it was more than a testimony to the power of his singing, it seemed a personal testament, a wail from the abyss, as well

14.
Homecoming in Heaven
–
Homecoming in Heaven is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1962 on the United Artists record label, Joness fondness for gospel music is well documented. In the 1989 documentary Same Ole Me, he recalls that he learned how to play the guitar at the church where his mother Clara, shed get her guitar and wed pick and sing together. We used to do all the really old gospel songs. Jones love of music actually predated his exposure to country music. Jones would continue to record gospel albums throughout his career, including Old Brush Arbors, In a Gospel Way, someones Watching Over You was written by J. P. Richardson who also wrote White Lightnin, which was Joness first number one country hit in 1959. The album is noteworthy for featuring a Willie Nelson composition called Kneel At The Feet Of Jesus. Wandering Soul was Joness only songwriting credit on album, which he had co-written with Bill Dudley several years before and had recorded previously

15.
My Favorites of Hank Williams
–
My Favorites of Hank Williams is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1962 on the United Artists record label and it was Jones second tribute to the music of Hank Williams. Joness first release on Mercury Records in 1960 had been George Jones Salutes Hank Williams, Jones always cited Hank Williams as one of his biggest musical influences. In 1949, Jones actually met Williams when Hank appeared on KRIC in Beaumont, a radio station where a teenage Jones had secured a gig backing an old time country duet act Eddie and Pearl. In a 2006 television interview with Bill Cody Jones recalled, He had to be the nicest guy Id ever met in my life, so down to earth. He had a big hit out at the time called Wedding Bells. So that beat me out of the kick off, you know, Id rehearsed and rehearsed. He finished the song and I hadnt hit a note. In the 1989 video documentary Same Ole Me, Jones admitted, I couldnt think or eat nothin unless it was Hank Williams and he had to be, really, the greatest. In his memoir, Jones recalled learning about Williams death on New Years Day 1953 while he was serving a stint in the marines stationed in San Jose, California. After a friend showed him the headline in the paper, Jones wrote that he lay there and bawled, by that thinking you could say he was the biggest part of my life. Thats how personally I took him and his songs, all songs by Hank Williams, except where noted

16.
I Wish Tonight Would Never End
–
I Wish Tonight Would Never End is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1963 on the United Artists record label, in the book George Jones, The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, Bob Allen quotes Jones, Now, truthfully, Melba fit my style more than Tammy did. I hate to use the word hard-core, but thats what Melba is - a down-to-earth, the other duet with Montgomery, Flame In My Heart, was originally recorded by Jones and Virginia Spurlock when Jones was with Mercury Records. The songs would be included on the Jones/Montgomery duet album Whats in Our Hearts, also released in 1963

17.
Mr. Country & Western Music
–
Mr. Country & Western Music is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1965 on the Musicor Records label. In addition to change in Joness music, his singing voice had matured. He had come to be comfortable with the lower and mid-range registers of his voice. Ever so gradually, he was becoming ill at ease with the mellower uptown-style songs that Pappy was starting to bring around for him to record. In a 2006 interview with Billboard, Jones acknowledged the fellow Texans influence on his idiosyncratic phrasing and he always made five syllables out of one word. Jones would re-record Dont You Ever Get Tired in his 1989 album One Woman Man

18.
New Country Hits
–
New Country Hits is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1965 on the Musicor Records label, New Country Hits features Joness first studio recording of Take Me, a song he co-wrote with Leon Payne and would record more famously with Tammy Wynette. The album also includes the hits Love Bug and the self-pitying Things Have Gone To Pieces, ive always tried to do up-tempos and novelties and ballads. The album is noteworthy for its cover, which features the singers backing band the Jones Boys. Paycheck is seated next to Jones on the cover of the album, upon release, New Country Hits rose to number 5 on the country music album chart

19.
Old Brush Arbors
–
Old Brush Arbors is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1965 on the Musicor Records label. Joness fondness for music is well documented. In the 1989 documentary Same Ole Me, he recalls that he learned how to play the guitar at the church where his mother Clara, shed get her guitar and wed pick and sing together. We used to do all the really old gospel songs. Jones love of music actually predated his exposure to country music. Jones would continue to record gospel albums throughout his career, including In a Gospel Way, old Brush Arbors Will There Be Stars in My Crown. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms Wont It Be Wonderful There

20.
Country Heart
–
Country Heart is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1966 as a double LP on the Musicor Records label, although Country Heart contained several hits Jones had scored with Musicor, it is not actually a greatest hits collection. It includes a rerecording of Joness first number one country hit White Lightnin as well as a remake of his hit duet We Must Have Been Out Of Our Minds with Melba Montgomery from 1963. Curiously, the album features an instrumental version of the The Race Is On. Country Heart also showcases the talents of Jones friend Earl Peanut Montgomery. From Here To The Door was written by Don Chapel, who was married to Tammy Wynette at the time, walk Through This World with Me would become a number one hit for Jones in 1967, his first chart topper in five years. W. Pappy Dailys insistence that he recorded the song at all, four-O-Thirty Three and Things Have Gone To Pieces had also been top ten hits for Jones

21.
I'm a People
–
Im a People is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1966 on the Musicor Records label, the album hit number one on the country chart. George Bedard of AllMusic writes, One of the more consistent Musicor offerings, it features a mix of uptempo honky tonk and novelty, ballads. Four-O-Thirty Three and the track were both top ten country hits. Im A People also includes the World Of Forgotten People written by country star Loretta Lynn. George even attempted to scat-sing as Miller often did on his own hits

22.
Walk Through This World with Me
–
Walk Through This World with Me is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1967 on the Musicor Records label. The song Walk Through This World With Me would become a one hit for Jones in 1967. Pappy Dailys insistence that he recorded the song at all, the single record on it was different, even though it was almost the same, I did a little better job singing the single than I did on the album. Jones would perform the song in concert throughout his career, often as part of an oldies medley, Walk Through This World With Me features two songs associated with a couple of people who would soon figure prominently in Joness life, singer Tammy Wynette and producer Billy Sherrill. Wynette was discovered by Sherrill, who co-wrote the sentimental country standard Almost Persuaded, buoyed by the popularity of the title track, Walk Through This World With Me would rise to number two on the country music album chart

23.
Sings the Songs of Dallas Frazier
–
Sings the Songs of Dallas Frazier is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1968 on the Musicor Records label, all the songs on the album are written by Dallas Frazier. The list of musicians on the album is unavailable, but many sources state that producer Pappy Daily very often used guitarist Zane Ashton among other musicians on a regular basis. This was further reinforced by the fact that both Frazier and Ashton did many sessions at Richie Podolors American Recording Studio, Jones would also record an album on Musicor called George Jones Sings the Great Songs of Leon Payne, which uses similar artwork. Sings the Songs of Dallas Frazier reached number 14 on the albums chart while the albums opening track, I Cant Get There From Here

24.
If My Heart Had Windows (George Jones album)
–
If My Heart Had Windows is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1968 on the Musicor Records label. If My Heart Had Windows features two of the more bizarre songs in the Jones cannon, Unwanted Babies and Poor Chinee. The former, a protest song written for Jones by Earl Peanut Montgomery, appears to be Joness half-hearted attempt to more socially conscious in the turbulent Vietnam War. Its not me. In the 1994 article The Devil in George Jones, america was adrift in a fluorescent cloud of patchouli-scented ahimsa, and Jones, in his crew cut and his Nudie Cohn suits, seemed hopelessly out of sync. We did a certain type of song that we thought would sell at that time, George said, but it wasn’t the type of song that I would have normally cut, and I just didn’t want to use my real name. The Poor Chinee, which contains the preposterous lyric “Me like bow-wow, very good chow-chow, the rest of the album, however, is pure Jones, whose voice and delivery had evolved into the more lucid, contemporary approach typical of the Nashville Sound of the sixties. Both the title track and Say Its Not You would be top ten country hits, a bootleg of Richards singing Your Angel Steps Out Of Heaven is also widely available. Johnny Paycheck sings the vocals on the Jones version. Possum Holler is a novelty song written by Dallas Frazier that makes light of the famous nickname. If My Heart Had Windows would rise to number 13 on the music album chart. In 1988, Patty Loveless would record the song for her second album If My Heart Had Windows and the song would be her first top ten hits

25.
I'll Share My World with You
–
Ill Share My World with You is an album by American country music artist George Jones. This album was released in 1969 on the Musicor Records label, Tammy Wynette, who married Jones that year, is pictured on the cover. By 1969, Jones was becoming unhappy with the production of his albums on Musicor, for which he primarily blamed his longtime producer. Adding to the estrangement between Jones and Daily was the arrival of Tammy Wynette in the singers life. Jones became aware of the pretty blond country singer after she scored a hit with Apartment No.9 in 1966. They began touring as part of the show and soon Jones took more than a passing fancy to Wynette. They soon became involved and were married in 1969. Jones would eventually buy out his contract with Musicor and jump to Epic, although Wynette appears on the album jacket of Ill Share My World With You and sings backup on the title track, she was not credited by name. The song Ill Share My World With You was written a Miami songwriter named Ben Wilson, ironically, Ill Share My World With You was kept out of the number one spot by Wynettes own monster hit Stand By Your Man. When The Grass Grows Over Me also reached two and was written by Don Chapel, who was married to Wynette when she and Jones first got to know one another. As he recalled in his memoir I Lived To Tell It All in 1996, Jones went to their one night for supper. Jones wrote, I felt rage fly all over me, I jumped from my chair, put my hands under the dinner table, and flipped it over. Dishes, utensils, and glasses flew in all directions, dons and Tammys eyes got about as big as the flying dinner plates. Jones professed his love for Wynette on the spot, milwaukee, a duet with fellow Texan Brenda Carter, would climb to number twelve on the country charts. Ill Share My World With You also features a rerecording of The Race Is On, Ill Share My World With You would reach number 5 on the country albums chart

26.
Will You Visit Me on Sunday?
–
Will You Visit Me on Sunday. Was the 1970 country music album released by George Jones in May 1970. The album contains 7 listings written by Dallas Frazier, one written by his wife, Tammy Wynette, the album went almost completely went unnoticed, becoming one of Jones worst album sales of his career. Despite this, the album displays some nice gems, including Image of Me, although Jones practically owned the country charts throughout the decade, by the end of the 1960s he had become dissatisfied with sound of his records. Jones had recorded over 280 sides with Musicor in six years, will You Visit Me On Sunday. The album also contains I Stayed Long Enough, a written by Joness wife Tammy Wynette

27.
George Jones with Love
–
George Jones with Love is an album by American country music artist George Jones, released in 1971 on the Musicor Records label. Although Joness final albums with Musicor have been criticized for their lackluster sound, which had only made it to number 44 on the country album chart, George Jones With Love made it to number nine. Its opening track, A Good Year For The Roses, climbed to two on the singles chart. Chris Woodstra of AllMusic calls the singers vocal on the Jerry Chestnut song one of his all-time greatest performances. Possum Holler is a novelty song written by Dallas Frazier that makes light of the famous nickname. Jones wrote Never Grow Cold with his wife Tammy Wynette, who provides the vocal harmony on the track, one listen, however, shows this to be an exception to the rule

28.
George Jones (We Can Make It)
–
George Jones, also titled George Jones was the 1972 country music studio album released by George Jones in April 1972. The release was Jones 46th studio album release since a debut from 16 years previous, also as a highlight in his career, it was the first release made on Jones new label, Epic Records. The album charted well for a George Jones album, eventually rising to #10 on the country charts. The album included other artists hits from 1971, including Charley Prides Kiss an Angel Good Morning and former Jones Boys bass player. Its title track We Can Make It peaked out at #6 on the US Country chart, for years, Jones had been staying back while his long-time manager and producer, Pappy Daily, made deal after deal with label after label. After taking him to Mercury Daily signed Jones to United Artists where he saw his biggest success during the 1960s, after leaving UA in early 64, he signed with Musicor Records, and saw a dropoff of his sound quality and sales. However, his biggest success was yet to come, and it would start with his third wife, the two often crossed paths during tours, and Jones proclaimed his love for her in 1969, and the two later married. It was through their relationship that Jones met Wynettes producer. Soon, the two began recording, and he even became Joness producer full-time, having him sign with Epic Records, soon after signing, Sherrill began producing the albums track recordings. His very next session was recorded on January 12,1972, the final recording was made during a session on February 10, which cut Loving You Could Never Be Better. All the tracks were recorded at the Columbia Recording Studio,804 16th Ave. South, in Nashville, Tennessee. Most of the tracks are hits, and nearly all the songs listed were written by different songwriters. The song is the best efforts by Jones of his years with Epic. It was released in February 1972 and peaked at #6 on the US Country chart, the two also wrote the next song on the album, Ill Take You to My World. Kiss An Angel Good Morning was a #1 hit with Charley Pride in 1971, All the Praises was written by J. Strickland and was later recorded by Connie Smith for one of her LP releases in 1973. During the mid to the late-1960s, Jones toured and recorded with Johnny Paycheck as a key member in his Jones Boys Band, often singing backup in studio sessions and live performances. After leaving the Boys in 1969, he went to pursue his own career, Shes All I Got peaked at #2 after being written by Gary Bonds and Jerry Williams. The Last Letter was written by Rex Griffin, the next track listed is Loving You Could Never Be Better, which displays Joness love for his new wife, Tammy

29.
A Picture of Me (Without You)
–
A Picture of Me is an album by American country music singer George Jones. It was released in 1972 on the Epic Records label, Joness second solo recording on Epic is one of five albums released by the singer in 1972 as producer Billy Sherrill wasted no time in flooding the market with new recordings by the Possum. The albums title track was the single release from it. The collection also contains Tom T, halls Second Handed Flowers, the kind of story song that had always been a part of Joness repertoire. After a shaky start, Jones and Sherrill sound more comfortable with each others formidable reputation as they get to each other musically. Their creative partnership would often be a compromise between the producers sonic experimentation and the hardcore country instincts. Biographer Bob Allen quotes the singer in his book George Jones, The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, I dont want a thousand violins and twenty trumpets on my records. Lorrie Morgan covered A Picture of Me on her 1991 album Something In Red and had a #8 country hit with it that same year. Mark Beming of AllMusic writes of the album. If you want to know why Gram Parsons called Jones the king of broken hearts, one spin of this album will tell you all you need to know

30.
Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)
–
Nothing Ever Hurt Me is an album by country music artist George Jones released in 1973, on the Epic Records label. It peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, more of the songs were up-tempo, a change of pace from his first two albums for the label. The title track, for example, is a novelty recorded at a blistering speed, the album also features Mom And Dads Waltz, a song originally written and performed by one of Joness biggest musical influences Lefty Frizzell. The albums hit single was What My Woman Cant Do, which rose to number 6, Jones helped Sherrill and Earl Montgomery write the song and also collaborated with Wynette on the prophetic Wine. Nothing Ever Hurt Me Youre Looking at a Happy Man Never Having You Made for the Blues Whats Your Mamas Name. Mom and Dads Waltz Youll Never Grow Old What My Woman Cant Do My Loving Wife Love Lives Again Wine Album – Billboard Singles - Billboard George Jones Official Website Record Label

31.
The Grand Tour (George Jones album)
–
The Grand Tour is an album by American country music artist George Jones, released in 1974 on Epic his fifth for the label. It peaked at #11 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and contained the hit title track, when Jones left Musicor for Epic Records in 1971, he had been on the downswing of a remarkably successful decade when his name was a fixture on the Billboard country singles chart. By the end of the decade, the singer was unhappy with the production quality of his records and had signed with Epic in the hopes that producer Billy Sherrill could re-establish his music. However, after three albums with Sherrill, Jones still had not scored a number one. Indeed, Jones had not had a one song since the ballad Walk Through This World With Me in 1967. Everyone could now see that George was running the risk of becoming a mere musical appendage to his younger and ever more famous wife and that changed when The Grand Tour was released in the summer of 1974, its title track becoming Joness first number one smash in eight years. An instant classic, Jones practically inhibits the song, which begins with the hook, Step right up. The song is hailed as one of the finest performances in country music history. In his liner notes for Classic Country Music, A Smithsonian Collection, genre historian Bill Malone calls it a matching of lyrics and performance. Malone writes that the graphic imagery permits the listener to see both the inside of the home where love has died and the interior of the narrators mind. In 2006 Jones would explain to Billboard, He just came up with that sound like he got with Tammy, Ba bum ba bum ba bum, build-ups. He tried to do that with me, but I finally had a talk with him. I said, Billy, Im country, Im traditional, I know youre wanting to cross over with me like you have with Tammy, Charlie Rich and those people, but Im hardcore and I cant help it. Thats what I feel, and I cant do a job for the label. The album produced one hit, Johnny Paychecks Once Youve Had The Best. Ironically, one of the co-writers of The Grand Tour was George Richey, the Grand Tour is considered one of Joness greatest albums. Ultimately, this is Jones country, the kind of country music that is pure yet as sophisticated as Sherrill wanted it to be

32.
Memories of Us
–
Memories of Us is an album by American country music artist George Jones, released in 1975 on the Epic Records label. It peaked at #43 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, Memories of Us was Joness first release after his divorce from Tammy Wynette. The years ahead would be an unpleasant time for Jones, to say the least, Jones scored two number-one hits in 1974, but Memories of Us failed to produce any hits and the album stalled on the Billboard charts at number 43. I had nothing left but my name, and my name was associated with missing personal appearances and he claims he wrote it at 3 a. m. in the aftermath of the divorce, and it comes right from the Hank Williams tradition of catharsis songs. Jones condemns everyone and everything including himself, as he denies his shortcomings, he fires back simultaneously - with razor-sharp fineness - his anger. That fiddle floating in the background offers a portrait of loneliness and rage that is unbridled, remarkably, the song was ignored for years, with the singer commenting in his memoir, I Just Dont Give a Damn was my eighty-sixth single record. It was on the Billboard survey for only two weeks and peaked at number ninety-two on the top 100, I had never released a record on a major label that did so poorly. Roy Kasten of Amazon. com states. Memories of Us is relentlessly dark, distinguished by the unbearably sad A Goodbye Joke and What I Do Best, surrounded by Sherrills often-breathtaking production, Joness voice never sounded so plangent, so aching. AllMusic describes the album as one of records that cannot be played all the time

33.
The Battle (George Jones album)
–
The Battle is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1976 on the Epic Records label. The Battle was Joness second album following his divorce from Tammy Wynette, although it did slightly better than his previous album Memories of Us on the Billboard country album charts, reaching number 36, it was a far cry from what the singer had been accustomed to. Despite the absence of a hit single, Joness singing is characteristically impeccable, especially on the title track, which peaked at number 14 on the singles chart. The singer gives a moving vocal on David Allan Coes I Still Sing The Old Songs. In the liner notes to the 1999 reissue of the LP, Wynette is quoted, Its funny, George and its all there. the fans dont have to ask. Thom Jurek of AllMusic calls The Battle a gorgeous record and contends that while its title suggested an album, it is anything. In fact, its an exercise in the conflict of emotions from sadness and loss, denial, anger, and everything here is a love song

Single (music)
–
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a song recording of fewer tracks than an LP record, an album or an EP record. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats, in most cases, a single is a song that is released separately from an album, although it usually also appears on an album. Ty

1.
45 rpm single record

George Jones
–
George Glenn Jones was an American musician, singer and songwriter. He achieved international fame for his long list of hit records, including his best known song He Stopped Loving Her Today, as well as his distinctive voice, for the last 20 years of his life, Jones was frequently referred to as the greatest living country singer. Waylon Jennings e

1.
George Jones performing at Country Fever in Pryor Creek, Oklahoma in 2005

2.
Hank Williams, Jones' biggest musical influence.

3.
Tammy Wynette in 1977

4.
Jones’ grave in Nashville

Country music
–
Country music is a genre of United States popular music that originated in the southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from the genre of United States, such as folk music. Blues modes have been used throughout its recorded history. The term country music is used today to many styles and subgenres. In 2009 country music was the most

1.
Jimmie Rodgers

2.
Vernon Dalhart

3.
Roy Acuff

4.
Publicity photo of Roy Rogers and Gail Davis, 1948

Songwriter
–
A songwriter is an individual who writes the lyrics, melodies and chord progressions for songs, typically for a popular music genre such as rock or country music. A songwriter can also be called a composer, although the term tends to be used mainly for individuals from the classical music genre. The pressure from the industry to produce popular hit

1.
Songwriter and singer Chris de Burgh.

Record producer
–
A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select th

1.
Jones performing at Harrah's Metropolis in Metropolis, Illinois in June 2002

Grand Ole Opry's New Star
–
Grand Ole Oprys New Star is the 1956 country music debut album released by George Jones on October 1,1956. Produced by Jones manager Pappy Daily, the album was recorded during sessions in 1954, throughout 1955. It is also the first album to be released on the Starday label, despite its mediocre sound, the album has become a huge collectors item. On

Long Live King George
–
Long Live King George is the title of a 1965 country music released by George Jones. The album was thought to be a studio release, however. The album features many of Jones early gems, including many of his earliest hits, You Gotta Be My Baby from 1956, Seasons of My Heart from 1955, and Jones first chart single Why Baby Why in 1955. It even lists

1.
Long Live King George

Country Church Time
–
Country Church Time is the 1959 country/gospel music studio album released by George Jones on January 20,1959. It was also his studio album release. The LP includes multiple early gospel recordings by Jones on Starday, the album was released on January 20,1959, and recorded from 1956-1958, listing Jones first gospel recordings. The album, however,

1.
Country Church Time

White Lightning and Other Favorites
–
White Lightning and Other Favorites is the 1959 country music studio album released by George Jones on May 26,1959. The album is Jones seventh studio release, and its title track White Lightning was a #1 Country hit in 1959. The album is one of the best, if not the best, the album charted well, and was one of the most popular country albums of 1959

1.
White Lightning and Other Favorites

George Jones Salutes Hank Williams
–
George Jones Salutes Hank Williams is the 1960 country music studio album released in May 1960 by George Jones. The album was the ninth studio LP release, and was recorded in one session, the album has been reissued multiple times since its release, including the tracks being reused on many compilations. The album was his album release of the 1960s

Sings Country and Western Hits
–
Sings Country and Western Hits is the 1961 country music studio album released in May 1961 by George Jones. The album was Jones tenth studio release since his debut LP in 1956. It would be one of his last with Mercury Records, as he switched to United Artists in late 1961, the album featured Jones covers of hits in the Country and Western Charts, t

1.
Sings Country and Western Hits

Sings from the Heart
–
Sings from the Heart is the 1962 country music studio album released by George Jones in June 1962. The album was his eleventh studio LP release, and was his last with Mercury, the albums theme was listing of songs about the heart, and contains his last #1 with Mercury Records from 1961, Tender Years. The LP release was Jones fourth studio release d

1.
Sings from the Heart

George Jones Sings Bob Wills
–
George Jones Sings Bob Wills is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1962 on the United Artists Records, George Jones Sings Bob Wills was Jones first album with United Artists after leaving Mercury Records. The album was produced by H. W. Pappy Daily and it was more than a testimony to the power of his singing,

1.
George Jones Sings Bob Wills

Homecoming in Heaven
–
Homecoming in Heaven is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1962 on the United Artists record label, Joness fondness for gospel music is well documented. In the 1989 documentary Same Ole Me, he recalls that he learned how to play the guitar at the church where his mother Clara, shed get her guitar and wed pick

1.
Homecoming in Heaven

My Favorites of Hank Williams
–
My Favorites of Hank Williams is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1962 on the United Artists record label and it was Jones second tribute to the music of Hank Williams. Joness first release on Mercury Records in 1960 had been George Jones Salutes Hank Williams, Jones always cited Hank Williams as one of his

1.
My Favorites of Hank Williams

2.
Hank Williams in concert in 1951

I Wish Tonight Would Never End
–
I Wish Tonight Would Never End is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1963 on the United Artists record label, in the book George Jones, The Life and Times of a Honky Tonk Legend, Bob Allen quotes Jones, Now, truthfully, Melba fit my style more than Tammy did. I hate to use the word hard-core, but thats what M

Mr. Country & Western Music
–
Mr. Country & Western Music is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1965 on the Musicor Records label. In addition to change in Joness music, his singing voice had matured. He had come to be comfortable with the lower and mid-range registers of his voice. Ever so gradually, he was becoming ill at ease with the mellower

1.
Mr. Country & Western Music

New Country Hits
–
New Country Hits is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1965 on the Musicor Records label, New Country Hits features Joness first studio recording of Take Me, a song he co-wrote with Leon Payne and would record more famously with Tammy Wynette. The album also includes the hits Love Bug and the self-pitying Thi

1.
New Country Hits

Old Brush Arbors
–
Old Brush Arbors is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1965 on the Musicor Records label. Joness fondness for music is well documented. In the 1989 documentary Same Ole Me, he recalls that he learned how to play the guitar at the church where his mother Clara, shed get her guitar and wed pick and sing together. We us

1.
Old Brush Arbors

Country Heart
–
Country Heart is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1966 as a double LP on the Musicor Records label, although Country Heart contained several hits Jones had scored with Musicor, it is not actually a greatest hits collection. It includes a rerecording of Joness first number one country hit White Lightnin as w

I'm a People
–
Im a People is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1966 on the Musicor Records label, the album hit number one on the country chart. George Bedard of AllMusic writes, One of the more consistent Musicor offerings, it features a mix of uptempo honky tonk and novelty, ballads. Four-O-Thirty Three and the track we

Walk Through This World with Me
–
Walk Through This World with Me is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1967 on the Musicor Records label. The song Walk Through This World With Me would become a one hit for Jones in 1967. Pappy Dailys insistence that he recorded the song at all, the single record on it was different, even though it was almost the sam

1.
Walk Through This World with Me

Sings the Songs of Dallas Frazier
–
Sings the Songs of Dallas Frazier is an album by American country music artist George Jones. It was released in 1968 on the Musicor Records label, all the songs on the album are written by Dallas Frazier. The list of musicians on the album is unavailable, but many sources state that producer Pappy Daily very often used guitarist Zane Ashton among o

1.
Sings the Songs of Dallas Frazier

If My Heart Had Windows (George Jones album)
–
If My Heart Had Windows is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1968 on the Musicor Records label. If My Heart Had Windows features two of the more bizarre songs in the Jones cannon, Unwanted Babies and Poor Chinee. The former, a protest song written for Jones by Earl Peanut Montgomery, appears to be Joness half-hearte

1.
If My Heart Had Windows

I'll Share My World with You
–
Ill Share My World with You is an album by American country music artist George Jones. This album was released in 1969 on the Musicor Records label, Tammy Wynette, who married Jones that year, is pictured on the cover. By 1969, Jones was becoming unhappy with the production of his albums on Musicor, for which he primarily blamed his longtime produc

Will You Visit Me on Sunday?
–
Will You Visit Me on Sunday. Was the 1970 country music album released by George Jones in May 1970. The album contains 7 listings written by Dallas Frazier, one written by his wife, Tammy Wynette, the album went almost completely went unnoticed, becoming one of Jones worst album sales of his career. Despite this, the album displays some nice gems,

1.
Will You Visit Me on Sunday?

George Jones with Love
–
George Jones with Love is an album by American country music artist George Jones, released in 1971 on the Musicor Records label. Although Joness final albums with Musicor have been criticized for their lackluster sound, which had only made it to number 44 on the country album chart, George Jones With Love made it to number nine. Its opening track,

George Jones (We Can Make It)
–
George Jones, also titled George Jones was the 1972 country music studio album released by George Jones in April 1972. The release was Jones 46th studio album release since a debut from 16 years previous, also as a highlight in his career, it was the first release made on Jones new label, Epic Records. The album charted well for a George Jones albu

1.
George Jones

A Picture of Me (Without You)
–
A Picture of Me is an album by American country music singer George Jones. It was released in 1972 on the Epic Records label, Joness second solo recording on Epic is one of five albums released by the singer in 1972 as producer Billy Sherrill wasted no time in flooding the market with new recordings by the Possum. The albums title track was the sin

1.
A Picture of Me (Without You)

Nothing Ever Hurt Me (Half as Bad as Losing You)
–
Nothing Ever Hurt Me is an album by country music artist George Jones released in 1973, on the Epic Records label. It peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, more of the songs were up-tempo, a change of pace from his first two albums for the label. The title track, for example, is a novelty recorded at a blistering speed, the alb

The Grand Tour (George Jones album)
–
The Grand Tour is an album by American country music artist George Jones, released in 1974 on Epic his fifth for the label. It peaked at #11 on the Billboard Country Albums chart and contained the hit title track, when Jones left Musicor for Epic Records in 1971, he had been on the downswing of a remarkably successful decade when his name was a fix

1.
The Grand Tour

Memories of Us
–
Memories of Us is an album by American country music artist George Jones, released in 1975 on the Epic Records label. It peaked at #43 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, Memories of Us was Joness first release after his divorce from Tammy Wynette. The years ahead would be an unpleasant time for Jones, to say the least, Jones scored two number-o

1.
Memories of Us

The Battle (George Jones album)
–
The Battle is an album by American country music artist George Jones released in 1976 on the Epic Records label. The Battle was Joness second album following his divorce from Tammy Wynette, although it did slightly better than his previous album Memories of Us on the Billboard country album charts, reaching number 36, it was a far cry from what the